CURRICULUM  VITAE
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Name:		OSTROMOUKHOV Victor 
Mail address:	Universite de Montreal, Dept. I.R.O.
		C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville
		Montreal (Quebec) Canada, H3C 3J7
E-mail address:	ostrom@iro.umontreal.ca
Telephone:	514-343-6509
		514-343-5834 (fax)
Citizenship:	French 
Marital Status:	Married, 3 children 

EDUCATION
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1995 	Ph.D. in Computer Science, 
		Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
1980 	Diploma of engineer-physicist
		Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Psys-Tech, MIPT), Russia


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Sept 2009 - present: Université de Lyon 1, LIRIS
  Position: Full Professor
  - Research:
    - Computer graphics
    - Photorealistic and non-photorealistic rendering
    - Digital halftoning
    - Sampling theory
    - Monte-Carlo and Quasi-Monte-Carlo methods
    - Low-discrepancy sequencies
    - Tilings and patterns
    - Color science & engineering

Aug 2000 - Sept 2009: Université de Montréal, Computer Graphics Lab
  Position: Associate Professor
  - Research:
    - Computer graphics
    - Photorealistic and non-photorealistic rendering
    - Digital halftoning
    - Sampling theory
    - Monte-Carlo and Quasi-Monte-Carlo methods
    - Low-discrepancy sequencies
    - Tilings and patterns
    - Color science & engineering

Sept 1999 - Aug 2000: MIT, Laboratory for Computer Science, Computer Graphics Group
  Position: Research Scientist
  - Research:
    - Non-photorealistic rendering
    - Digital halftoning
    - Texture synthesis

Aug 1989 - Sept 1999 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
    Position: Senior Scientist and Lecturer
  - Research:
    - Digital halftoning
    - Photorealistic and non-photorealistic rendering
    - Color science & engineering
    - Color devices calibration and characterization
    - Printing with non-standard inks, multi-color printing
    - Moiré phenomenon in four-color printing
    - Theory of tilings and space-filling curves
    - Parallel page-description languages
  - Teaching:
    - Computer Graphics: Art and Science, graduate level
    - Scientific Programming for Mechanical Engineering Dept.
    - Peripheral systems course, undergraduate level
    - Mathematica, PostScript language courses
    - Color science tutorials: RIDT'94, EP'96, GIGA'98
    - Color reproduction tutorials: RIDT'94, Gutenberg'95, EP'96
    - Semestrial and diploma projects guidance
  - Industrial partnership and consulting activities:
    - Artistic screening, security printing:
                        Orell-Fussli, Switzerland, Courvoisier SA, Switzerland.
      De La Rue Giori, Switzerland,
    - Multi-color printing:
                        Orell-Fussli, Switzerland,
                        OCE, Netherlands
    - Various ink-jet printers:
      Canon Information Systems, USA and Japan
    - Variable-dot ink-jet printers: Scitex, USA
    - Design and creation of a hight-quality printing system for
      scientific publications: Imprimerie Lous-Jean, France

Jan 97 - Jun 97 University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
    Position: Invited Professor
  - Teaching:
    - Computer Graphics course, undergraduate level
    - Computer Graphics and Visual Arts course, graduate level
  - Research:
    - Color science: study of a beyond-four-color printing process
    - Novel multi-ink printing technology
    - Ornamental patterns for computer graphics
    - Photorealistic and non-photorealistic (artistic) rendering
    - Theory of tilings and space-filling curves

Oct 95 - May 96 Canon Information Systems, Cupertino, CA, USA
    Position: Color Scientist Consultant
  - Research:
    - Modelization of ink-jet printers
    - New halftoning algorithms for inkjet and laser printers
                  (including variable-dot size and multi-color printers)
    - Calibration and gray balance for inkjet and laser printers
    - New undercolor removal algorithms for inkjet and
      laser printers
    - Research on visual quality of inkjet printers
  - Accomplishments:
    - Novel error-diffusion technique (US patent pending)
    - Novel undercolor removal algorithm (US patent pending)
    - Novel pluri-matrix halftoning algorithm (US patent pending)
    - Efficient gray balance scheme for inkjet and laser printers
    - Tutorial on halftoning (Oct-Nov. '95)

1985 - 1989 Olivetti, Paris, France
    Position: Computer Scientist and Engineer
  - research in operating systems and printing technologies
  - system assistance for sales and marketing departments
  - teaching activities: C, UNIX and PostScript courses
  - launching of a new computer line: Comet project, Milan, 1987

1983 - 1985 Societe Generale de Service et de Gestion (SG2), Paris, France
    Position: Computer Engineer
  - technical assistance for developers
  - system software support
  - development of non-standard system software

1980 - 1983   Globe Physics Institute, Moscow
    Position: Scientist
  - research in applied geophysics
  - numerical methods
  - earthquake prediction and simulation

LANGUAGES
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	Fluent English, French and Russian

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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(2009) Jianghao Chang, Benoit Alain, Victor Ostromoukhov,
    Structure-Aware Error Diffusion, ACM Transactions on Graphics,
    Vol.28, No.5, pp. 162:1-162:8, 2009. (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH-ASIA 2009)

(2009) Victor Ostromoukhov,
    Recent Progress in Improvement of Extreme Discrepancy 
    and Star Discrepancy of One-dimensional Sequences,
    in Monte-Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods 2008,
    pp. 561-572, Springer-Verlag, 2009. 
		
(2008) Fabrice Rousselle, Petrik Clarberg, Luc Leblanc,
    Victor Ostromoukhov, Pierre Poulin,
    Efficient Product Sampling using Hierarchical Thresholding,
    The Visual Computer, vol. 24(5-7), pp. 465-474, 2008. 

(2008) Ares Lagae, Chi-Wing Fu, Victor Ostromoukhov, Craig S. Kaplan,
    Johannes Kopf and Oliver Deussen,
    Tile-Based Methods for Interactive Applications.
    SIGGRAPH 2008 Class, Los Angeles, USA.

(2008) David Vanderhaeghe, Victor Ostromoukhov,
    Polyomino-Based Digital Halftoning,
    Proceedings of IADIS International Conference on Computer Graphics and Visualization, pp. 57-64, 2008.

(2007) Victor Ostromoukhov,
    Sampling with Polyominoes,
    Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2007.
    ACM Transactions on Graphics, 26(3), pp. 78-1--78-6, 2007.

(2007) Simon Bouvier-Zappa Victor Ostromoukhov Pierre Poulin,
    Motion Cues for Non-Photorealistic Illustration of
    Skeletal Motion Capture Data,
    Proceedings of NPAR'2007, pp.133-140.

(2007) Charles Donohue, Victor Ostromoukhov,
    Fast Generation of Importance-sampled Point Sets with Associated
    Delaunay Triangulation,
    Proceedings of GRAPHICON'2007, pp.125-130.

(2007) Victor Ostromoukhov,
    Building 2D Low-Discrepancy Sequences for Hierarchical Importance Sampling
    Using Dodecagonal Aperiodic Tiling,
    Proceedings of GRAPHICON'2007, pp.139-142.

(2004) Victor Ostromoukhov, Charles Donohue, Pierre-Marc Jodoin,
    Fast Hierarchical Importance Sampling with Blue Noise Properties,
    ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 488-495, 2004,
    Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2004.

(2004) Martin Cote, Pierre-Marc Jodoin, Charles Donohue, Victor Ostromoukhov,
    Non-Photorealistic Rendering of Hair for Animated Cartoons,
    Proceedings of GRAPHICON, To appear. 

(2003) Victor Ostromoukhov,
    Efficient Color For Efficient Web Applications.
    Keynote talk at 8th International Conference on 3D Web Technology,
    March 9 - 12, 2003, Saint Malo, France.

(2003) P.-M. Jodoin and V. Ostromoukhov,
    Halftoning Over a Hexagonal Grid,
    SPIE Vol. 5008, pp. 443-454, 2003.

(2002) F. Durand, M. Agrawala, B. Gooch, V. Interrante,
    V. Ostromoukhov, and D. Zorin,
    Perceptual and Artistic Principles for Effective Computer Depiction,
    Course Notes for SIGGRAPH 2002, San Antonio, Texas, July 2002,
    ISBN 1-58113-518-1.

(2002) P.-M. Jodoin, E. Epstein, M. Granger-Piche and V. Ostromoukhov,
    Hatching by Example: a Statistical Approach,
    To appear in Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering 2002 (NPAR '02),
    Annecy, France, June 3-5, 2002.

(2002) Victor Ostromoukhov,
    Techniques de rendu non-photoréaliste (NPR),
    in François X. Sillion (ed.) Synthèse d'images géographiques,
    pp. 217-250, Editions Hermes Science, 2002. 
    ISBN 2-7462-0450-9.

(2002) P.-M. Jodoin and V. Ostromoukhov,
    Error-Diffusion with Blue-Noise Properties for Midtones,
    SPIE Vol. 4663, pp. 293-301, 2002.

(2001) F. Durand, V. Ostromoukhov, M. Miller, F. Duranleau, and J. Dorsey
    Decoupling Strokes and High-Level Attributes
    for Interactive Traditional Drawing.
    Proceedings of Eurographics Rendering Workshop'01,
    in S.J. Gortler, K. Myszkowski (eds.), Rendeing Rechniques 2001,
    Springer Computer Science, pp. 71-82, 2001.

(2001) V. Ostromoukhov,
    A Simple and Efficient Error-Diffusion Algorithm.
    In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2001, in ACM Computer Graphics,
    Annual Conference Series, pp. 567-572, 2001.

(2001) V. Ostromoukhov,
    Optimal Halftoning for Network-Based Imaging.
    SPIE Vol. 4300, pp. 438-443, 2001.

(2000) V. Ostromoukhov,
    (Invited Paper) Artistic Halftoning - Between Technology and Art.
    SPIE Vol. 3963, p. 489-509, 2000.

(1999) V. Ostromoukhov,
    Digital Facial Engraving,
    In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH'99,
    In ACM Computer Graphics, Annual Conference Series, pp. 417-424, 1999.

(1999) V. Ostromoukhov, R. D. Hersch, 
    Multicolor and Artistic Dithering,
    In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH'99,
    In ACM Computer Graphics, Annual Conference Series, pp. 425-432, 1999.

(1999) V. Ostromoukhov, R. D. Hersch, 
    Stochastic Clustered-Dot Dithering.
    Journal of Electronic Imaging,
    Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 439-445, 1999.

(1998) E.J. Stollnitz, V. Ostromoukhov, D. H. Salesin,
    Reproducing Color Images Using Custom Inks,
    Proceedings of SIGGRAPH'98,
    In ACM Computer Graphics, Annual Conference Series, 1998, pp. 267-274.

(1998) V. Ostromoukhov,
    Mathematical Tools for Computer-Generated Ornamental Patterns,
    In: Electronic Publishing, Artistic Imaging and Digital Typography, 
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1375, Springer Verlag, pp. 193-223, 1998.

(1998) V. Ostromoukhov,
    Resolution or more colours ­ Making the choice,
    Proceedings of the GIGA Information Group European Ink Jet and Thermal 
    Printing Conference, Dusseldorf, 1998.

(1998) N. Rudaz, R. D. Hersch, V. Ostromoukhov,
    An interface for the interactive design of artistic screens,
    In: Electronic Publishing, Artistic Imaging and Digital Typography, 
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1375, Springer Verlag, pp. 1-10, 1998.

(1998) V. Ostromoukhov, R.D. Hersch,
    Structure Artifact Free Multi-Level Error Diffusion Algorithm,
    International Symposium on Electronic Image Capture and Publishing,
    Zürich, Proceedings Europto Conf. Series, SPIE Vol. 3409, pp. 215-219, 1998.

(1997) N. Rudaz, R. D. Hersch, V. Ostromoukhov,
    Specifying color differences in a linear color space (LEF),
    In: Proceedings of the Fifth Color Imaging Conference:
    Color Science, Systems and Applications, Scottsdale, Scottsdale, 1997.

(1997) R.D. Hersch, V. Ostromoukhov,
    Recent Progress in Digital Halftoning for Color Reproduction,
    State of the Art Report, Proceedings of the 
    7-th International Graphicon Conference on Computer Graphics and
    Visualization, Moscow, May 21-24, 1997.

(1996) V. Ostromoukhov, P. Emmel, N. Rudaz, I. Amidror, R.D. Hersch,
    Dithering Algorithms for Variable Dot Size Printers,
    IEEE Signal Processing Society,
    1996 Intl. Conf. on Image Processing, Proceedings, 1996.

(1996) P. Emmel, I. Amidror, V. Ostromoukhov, R.D. Hersch
    Predicting the spectral behaviour of colour printers for transparent
    inks on transparent support.
    IS&T/SID 96 Color Imaging Conference: Color Science,
    Systems and Applications, Proceedings, Scottsdale, Arizona, pp. 86-91, 1996.

(1996) V. Ostromoukhov, P. Emmel, N. Rudaz, I. Amidror, R.D. Hersch
    Multi-Level Colour Halftoning Algorithms.
    Proc. SPIE Vol. 2949, Imaging Sciences and Display
    Technologies, Symposium on Advanced Imaging and Network Technologies,
    p. 332-340, 1997.
    Reprinted in Recent Progress in Digitial Halftoning II (R.Eschbach, ed.)
    IS&T, pp.166-172, 1999.

(1996) V. Ostromoukhov, N. Rudaz, I. Amidror, P. Emmel, R.D. Hersch
    Anti-Counterfeiting Feature of Artistic Screening.
    SPIE Vol. 2951 Holographic and Diffractive Techniques, pp. 126-133, 1996.

(1995) V. Ostromoukhov, R.D. Hersch,
    Artistic Screening, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH'95,
    In ACM Computer Graphics, Annual Conference Series, pp. 219-228, 1995.

(1995) V. Ostromoukhov,
    Reproduction couleur par trames irrégulières et semi-régulières,
    Ph.D. Thesis No.1330, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1995.

(1995) V. Ostromoukhov, R.D. Hersch,
    Halftoning by Rotating Non-Bayer Dispersed Dither Arrays,
    Proceedings Conf. Human Vision, Visual Processing
    and Digital Display VI, SPIE Vol. 2411. pp. 180-197, 1995.
    Reprinted in Selected Papers on Digitial Halftoning (Jan P. Allebach, ed.)
    SPIE Milestones Series #154, pp. 238-255, 1999.

(1995) P. Emmel, R.D. Hersch, V. Ostromoukhov,
    A Grid-Based Method for Predicting the Behaviour of Colour Printers.
    The third IS&T/SID Color Imaging Conference,
    Color Science, Systems and Applications, Scottsdale, Arizona,
    Proceedings, pp. 71-77, 1995.

(1995) R.D. Hersch, V. Ostromoukhov,
    Introduction à la génération d'images en demi-tons,
    Cahiers Gutenberg, Vol. 21, pp. 135-166, 1995.

(1994) V. Ostromoukhov, R.D. Hersch, I. Amidror,
    Rotated Dispersed Dither: a New Technique for Digital Halftoning,
    Proceedings of SIGGRAPH'94,
    In ACM Computer Graphics, Annual Conference Series, pp. 123-130, 1994.

(1994) I. Amidror, R.D. Hersch, V. Ostromoukhov,
    Spectral Analysis and Minimisation of Moiré
    patterns in Colour Separation,
    Journal of Electronic Imaging, 3 (3), pp. 295-317, 1994.
    Reprinted in Selected Papers on Digitial Halftoning (Jan P. Allebach, ed.)
    SPIE Milestones Series #154, pp. 207-229, 1999.

(1994) V. Ostromoukhov, R.D. Hersch, C. Péraire, P. Emmel, I. Amidror,
    Two approaches in scanner-printer calibration:
    colorimetric space-based vs. closed-loop,
    IS&T/SPIE 1994 International Symposium on Electronic Imaging:
    Science Technology, San Jose (ed. Motta, Berberian), 
    SPIE Vol. 2170, pp. 133-142, San Jose, 1994.

(1993) V. Ostromoukhov,
    Pseudo-Random Halftone Screening for Color and Black&White Printing.
    Proceedings of the 9th Congress on Advances in
    Non-Impact Printing Technologies, Yokohama, pp.579-581, 1993.
    Reprinted in Recent Progress in Digitial Halftoning (R.Eschbach, ed.)
    IS&T, pp.130-134, 1994.
    Reprinted in Selected Papers on Digitial Halftoning (Jan P. Allebach, ed.)
    SPIE Milestones Series #154, pp. 195-202, 1999.

(1993) V. Ostromoukhov,
    Chromaticity gamut enhancement by heptatone multi-color printing,
    IS&T/SPIE 1993 International Symposium on Electronic Imaging:
    Science Technology, San Jose (ed. Motta, Berberian), 
    SPIE Vol. 1909., pp. 139-151, 1993.

(1993) M.Morgan, R.D.Hersch, V. Ostromoukhov,
    Hardware Acceleration of Halftoning.
    Society for Information Display. Digest of Technical Papers.
    Vol.XXIV. pp. 151-154, 1993.

(1993) V. Ostromoukhov,
    Hermite approximation for offset curve computation. 
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics
    ICCG93, Bombay, (eds. S.P. Mudur and S.N. Pattanaik), 
    IFIP Transactions B: Graphics, Design and Visualisation,
    North-Holland, pp.189-196, 1993.

(1989) Jacques André, Victor Ostromoukhov,
    Punk: from METAFONT to PostScript.
    Cahiers GUTenberg, Vol. 4, pp. 23-48, 1989.

BOOK CHAPTERS
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(2002) Victor Ostromoukhov,
    Techniques de rendu non-photoréaliste (NPR), 
    in Franois X.  Sillion (ed.) Synthèse d'images géographiques,
    pp. 217-250, Editions Hermes Science, 2002. ISBN 2-7462-0450-9.

ISSUED PATENTS
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(2006) METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING DIGITAL HALFTONE IMAGES BY MULTI COLOR DITHERING.
        U.S. Patent No. 7,054,038. Assignee: EPFL.

(2005) HALFTONING BY ENHANCED ERROR DIFFUSION.
        U.S. Patent No. 6,870,642  Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha.

(2002) HALFTONING BY ENHANCED ERROR DIFFUSION.
        U.S. Patent No. 6,356,362. Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha.

(2001) (with R.D.Hersch) METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING 
        HALFTONE IMAGES BY EVOLUTIONARY SCREEN DOT CONTOURS.
        U.S. Patent No. 6,198,545. Assignee: EPFL.

(1999) MATRIX-BASED GRAY COMPONENT REPLACEMENT FOR COLOR HALFTONING.
        U.S. patent 5,923,774. Assignee: Canon Information Systems.

(1998) ENHANCED ERROR-DIFFUSION METHOD FOR COLOR OR
        BLACK-AND-WHITE REPRODUCTION.
        U.S. patent 5,737,453. Assignee: Canon Information Systems.

(1997) HALFTONING WITH GRADIENT-BASED SELECTION OF DITHER MATRICES.
        U.S. patent 5,701,366. Assignee: Canon Information Systems.

(1995) METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING DIGITAL HALFTONE IMAGES
        USING A ROTATED DISPERSED DITHER MATRIX.
        U.S. Patent No. 5,438,431. Assignee: EPFL.

(1995) (with R.D.Hersch) METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING HALFTONE
        IMAGES BY DISCRETE ONE-TO-ONE DITHER TILE ROTATION.
        U.S. Patent No. 5,422,742. Assignee: EPFL.

CONTRIBUTION TO INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEES
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- SIGGRAPH, 2009, 2010 (IPC member)
- SIGGRAPH ASIA, 2009, 2010 (S&P IPC member)
- GRAPHICON, 2009 (co-chairman of the IPC)
- NPAR, International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006-2008, 2010 (IPC member)
- ISVC09, 2009 (IPC member)
- Eurographics, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008 (IPC member)
- Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing, 2005-2007, 2010 (IPC member)
- Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, 2005-2007 (IPC member)
- Pacific Graphics, 2004 (IPC member)
- WSCG, International Conference  on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision, 2003, 2004 (IPC member)
- SPIE, Device-Independent Color Imaging Conference, 2000 (IPC member)

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
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Associate Editor of the journal Computers and Graphics, since 2009.

REVIEWING
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- IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer, 2000-now
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2000-now
- IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2000-now
- ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2000-now
- ACM Journal of Graphics Tools, 2000-now
- Journal of Electronic Imaging, 2000-now
- Journal of the Optical Society of America, 2000-now
- Elsevier Computer and Graphics, 2003-now
- Optics Letters, 2002-now
- Computer Graphics Forum, 2002-now
- SIGGRAPH, 2000-now
- SIGGRAPH ASIA, now
- Eurographics, 2000-now
- Pacific Graphics, 2006
- Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, 2000-now
- Graphics Interface, 2001-now 
- NPAR, International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering, 2000-now
- SPIE Electronic Imaging Intl. Conference, 2000-now

REFERENCES available upon request.
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